full-disclosure - microsoft phoning home?

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From: zorkshin at tampabay.rr.com (Justin Shin)
Subject: microsoft phoning home?

Hey

I was curious after reading your email so I ran ethereal and sure enough, I
got about 20 TCP packets and two HTTP packets. Maybe some sort of feature,
no?

-- Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: "bscabl" <bscabl@...ap.rr.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:33 PM
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] microsoft phoning home?

im not sure if this is 'normal' or not, but in XP pro with sp1 if i bring up
the search dialog

i get this:

1,[03/Jul/2003 19:30:29] Rule 'microsoft': Blocked: Out TCP,
localhost:1217->207.46.248.249:80, Owner: D:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE
1,[03/Jul/2003 19:30:29] Rule 'microsoft': Blocked: Out TCP,
localhost:1218->207.46.248.249:80, Owner: D:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE

it seems to be trying to contact 207.46.248.249, wich is sa.microsoft.com

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